Viva Aerobus carried 11.34 million passengers in the first half of 2023 (January-June). Helped by the cessation of Interjet in 2020, Viva Aerobus has grown enormously. Traffic rose by 20%+ versus 1H 2022 – its previous record – and by 110% over the pre-pandemic 2019. The huge domestic market remained Viva Aerobus’ foundation, with around […]
July 13, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Aeromexico introduced flights between Mexico City NLU and Houston IAH on Monday 1 May, marking the first US route to be served out of the Mexican capital’s newest international airport – Felipe Angeles (AIFA). The 1,235-kilometre service is maintained daily by Aeromexico’s regional subsidiary Aeromexico Connect and its E190 jet. Flight AM2780 departs Mexico City […]
May 8, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Aeromexico added a new destination in Europe on Saturday 25 March with the introduction of a nonstop service between Mexico City and Rome FCO. The 10,240-kilometre transatlantic route is served 4-weekly with the 787-8 aircraft. The SkyTeam member airline will increase frequencies between the two capital cities to 5-weekly from 1 June and to daily […]
March 27, 2023 | Latest Route News +
The North American market, especially in Mexico and the US, saw air passenger traffic recover far more quickly than in many other parts of the world. But how has the market developed more recently? Using Cirium schedules data we have determined the top 20 fastest-growing airports in North America (Canada, Mexico and the US) between […]
March 23, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
According to our painstaking research over the course of 2022, Air Service One estimates that airlines last year launched over 650 new routes involving at least one North American airport. This compares with over 1,250 that we identified in 2021. As travel restrictions were eased in 2021 airlines tried all sorts of interesting new routes […]
January 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Similar to last month, it was a relatively quiet period for new route launches in North America. Without the growing number of new services to the new Mexico City NLU airport it would have been even quieter. Air Service One has identified and confirmed 30 new routes that launched in North America during the last […]
October 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Copa Airlines became the latest airline to offer flights to the new airport serving Mexico City. On Monday 26 September it launched 3-weekly service on the 2,420-kilometre route from Panama City to Mexico City NLU. The Star Alliance carrier will use its 737-800s on the route. This new route complements Copa’s existing route to Mexico […]
September 28, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Arajet (IATA code DM), the new airline that launched recently in the Dominican Republic, began a 3-weekly service between Santo Domingo and Mexico City NLU on Thursday 22 September. The other two weekly flights take place on Mondays and Saturdays. The 3,100-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s fleet of 737 MAX 8s, of […]
September 26, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Mexican regional carrier Aeromar (IATA code VW) has launched a new domestic route between Mexico City MEX and Aguascalientes on Monday 5 September. It is offering daily service using its ATR 72s. It last connected these two airports in February 2014 according to Cirium schedule data. The two airports are just 420 kilometres apart and […]
September 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Mexico City’s newest airport, Felipe Ángeles International Airport (IATA code NLU), opened earlier this year on 21 March. Initially, Mexico’s three main airlines (Aeromexico, Vivaaerobus and Volaris) each operated daily service to two domestic destinations, with no route overlap. There was also a weekly service to Caracas with Conviasa, the airport’s first international route. Aeromexico […]
September 7, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Volaris began serving Lima in Peru for the first time on 1 June. On that day it began daily service to the Peruvian capital from both Cancun and Mexico City using its A320neos. The 4,230-kilometre route from the Mexican capital is already served by Aeromexico (2-daily) and LATAM (daily), while the 3,810-kilometre sector from Cancun […]
June 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Mexico City’s new airport, Aeropuerto Internacional Felipe Ángeles (IATA code NLU) opened to much fanfare on Monday 21 March 2022. A pet project of the country’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the new facility has been built on the site of a former military airfield at Santa Lucia, around 50 kilometres north-northeast of the historic […]
March 22, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story